Sentence examples for a mere exhibition from inspiring English sources

And no country can hope to compete when it comes to motivation: the Classic is a mere exhibition for American players but it is the equivalent of the World Series for the Cubans.

Two years later, Mr. Kasparov played and lost a six-game exhibition match against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by I.B.M. Grandmasters saw the match as a mere exhibition, but some acknowledged that the public might have thought that Mr. Kasparov had lost the world title.

Far from it, Benjamin referred often to the "decay of the aura," to its "withering away" in the grasp of mechanical contrivance, to the shift from cult ritual for unique viewing and an inevitable descent into mere "exhibition value".

Indeed, it is a mere art exhibition.

These may be mere exhibition games, but the Los Angeles Galaxy's David Beckham, a former Manchester United star who endured his share of Ferguson's hair-dryer treatments, put his old club's approach in perspective.

Her work -- which included setting up a cooperative breeding program for tamarins among zoos worldwide and making minute observations of decades of pandas' social, sexual and gastronomic lives -- helped expand the function of the modern zoo from mere exhibition to concerted, scientifically informed conservation.

"American Spirit" the catalogue is not a mere reiteration of the exhibition; it excludes some images that hang on the wall, like a still-life of crystals that looks at once tongue-in-cheek and hippie-chic, while lavishing attention on others left out of the show.

I've no doubt all these artists will make interesting works but the "exhibition" is a mere stunt, a gesture.

Poles find the wording infuriating: the Hitler-Stalin carve-up of eastern Europe was a crime, not a mere historical backdrop.Russia closed its exhibition at Auschwitz in 2003, to update it.

The 1932 exhibition's catalog essay dismissed Schindler as a mere follower of Wright.

Of course, due to different educational standards worldwide and also to the fact that there were always slight variations in the exhibitions, none of the educational content of foreign editions was a mere translation of the original.